India, Jan. 5 -- Police have registered a case of extortion and abetment to suicide against a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate, Farooq Inamdar, candidate from Ward No. 41, after a 56-year-old businessman was found dead in the Camp area.

The deceased, a resident of Syed Nagar in Hadapsar, ran a real estate office in Camp. He was found hanging inside his office, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Lashkar police station, on Saturday evening.

Police said they recovered a two-page suicide note from the spot, part of which was written on paper, while another portion was allegedly written on the deceased person's hand.

According to investigators, the note names Inamdar and three others. It alleges sustained financial and ment...